28 Aug 2015 12:12 PM:

Quote: We   let out our villa and there is a fair amount of electricity included in the price. Guests are asked to pay for any excess.

 

I always find such lets amusing and always avoid them.

I figure if you can't afford the electricity bill then you probably can't afford lots of other things and shouldn't be letting in the first place.

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08 Aug 2015 11:26 AM:

For an internet company Aeromax are hopeless at emails. That said if you call their free number listed on the site you shouldn't have any problems and they speak English too.

We have had them for a couple of years and they are excellent, at least for us anyway. The internet is stable and always the same speed. We just got them to move the system to our new house, called them up and they organised the installation on the same day as the move. Can't ask for anymore than that really.

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23 Jun 2015 2:43 PM:

Had the exact same thing happen here at the start of the year and it has turned into a right mess.

The town hall refuse to install community boxes and the community(or more rightly a vocal minority of the community) are refusing to pay for them too. Six months down the track while neighbouring communities have installed boxes there is not even a sniff of one here. Correos stated they would still deliver registered letters and large boxes but only do the registered letters and not the boxes but I'm sure this is because people from the community are doing bi-weekly protests in front of the post office and town hall. I'm positive some things of mine have disappeared but can't be certain.

 

a) isn't there a law of some sort in Spain that says every domicile muist have a letter box? Unless I go to the post office regularly to ask (and this is difficult seeing I'm a non resident) how am I to know of any official notices that are being sent to me?

In fact it is the opposite thanks to a Kings Ruling which is the law they are citing here which basically states that if there is not enough population density then there is no obligation for a door to door postal service. Most urbs even if full would struggle to fill the numbers.

We are moving very shortly and the town we are going to has already gone through this process and reacted in a normal way about it so for now I'm happy to leave these cheapskates to it.

That said I would love to know is if in the Campello, San Juan, Alicante area there is a place that will sign for amazon deliveries and you can go and pick them up.

 

 

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07 May 2015 10:16 AM:

Clearly, just sign on the dotted line and she'll be fine. Glad I got that advice from someone who knows.

Unlike you and your mate I am not calling you a liar but seemingly you are as you feel my knowledge and experience should be discarded. It's also knowledge and experience that is matched on all the Spanish forums including this one from plenty of sources as well as collegues at work and the Spanish people. How dare you then claim that you know it all and are the only one with the facts when you have demonstrated that you don't. By all means, give your experience on what you know but when you haven't a clue stop and don't give people bad advice.

Here is another top tip OP, it wouldn't be advisable to use john as an intemediatry for anything. He by his own admission has no experience when things don't go as planned and sometimes that happens whether he thinks it does or not. If that happens and which is the point I have been trying to make the whole time it could potentially cost you a lot of money, certainly more than a few hundred you had saved by hiring a random from an internet forum.

Hire a lawyer, make sure they are qualified and registered. Have a look at the british embassy websites list and email all of them and see what responses you get.

 

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07 May 2015 12:59 AM:

Frankly I don't need to be patronized by somebody who by their own admission has either never had a problem when buying or selling or is totally oblivious to the issues out there. I'm only offering my own experience and it is borderline offensive to be talked down upon simply because it disagrees with your view. People would do very well to pay attention to all the posts made, good, bad, realistic or "cynical".

Yeah I may be angry, with good cause but it will pass. I am fed up with it, sure why should I be the one who is made to feel like a fool or feel guilty for the wrong doings of others. Regardless it's off topic, but it is a real world view on the ground whether people think it is or not and I know it's not just us.

Why after two years, well you have to give due diligence a shot. No? It's certainly better than showing up for a weekend and buying the first thing you see. We live here anyhoo so have had the time to research  the areas etc... But hey, we are here for the long haul and like so many people keep saying there are "plenty of legal properties" out there and frankly at the place the market is right now you can't really lose out on it, better than throwing rent money away or buying circa 2006 at double the price. Problem is there aren't plenty of legal properties out there, would be nice if simply by the law of averages one would of fallen in our lap.

I'm happy to admit we may of been unlucky or even looking in the wrong place but we are here for work so are locked to a certain area. Maybe we are to picky too, it's possible but appartment life isn't for me nor those carbon copy urbs, that's 50% of the market ruled out.

Anyway, that is more of an answer than was justified and  as far as the OP the UK.gov site has a list of lawyers, check it out.

 

This message was last edited by starfox on 07/05/2015.
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